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  1. 12 Years a Slave received widespread critical acclaim and was named the best film of 2013 by several media outlets and critics, and it earned over $187 million on a production budget of $22 million. The film received nine Academy Award nominations, winning for Best Picture , Best Adapted Screenplay for Ridley, and Best Supporting Actress for ...

  2. Nov 8, 2013 · Featured review. 9/10. 12 Years A Slave earns the right to be called one of the best films of the year. If any contemporary director deserves to be in the mainstream spotlight without compromising their style, it's Steve McQueen.

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  3. Apr 19, 2024 · 12 Years a Slave, American dramatic film, released in 2013, that impressed critics and audiences with its harrowing depiction of slavery in the antebellum South. The movie won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for best picture as well as the Golden Globe Award for best drama.

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  5. Mar 8, 2024 Full Review Mark Johnson Awards Daily A searing and thought-provoking portrait of pre-Civil War American slavery... 12 Years a Slave is an absorbing and divinely crafted film,...

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  6. 12 Years a Slave (2013) became the first film directed and produced by a black filmmaker ( Steve McQueen) and also the first to be written by an African-American ( John Ridley) to win the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture of the Year. 2014 Nominee Oscar. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. Chiwetel Ejiofor.

  7. Nov 4, 2013 · The film is based on the memoir written by Solomon Northup, which reveals what happened after Solomon (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) - a free black man living in New York in pre-Civil War America - was kidnapped and sold into slavery, before he was able to regain his freedom more than a decade later.

  8. Oct 18, 2013 · By John Powers. October 18, 2013. Photo: Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures. 1. Already being touted as the Best Picture frontrunner, 12 Years a Slave is the finest movie ever made...

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